In a beautiful irony the bikers are arrested for riding in a fourth of July parade without a permit. They encounter a hippie commune trying to live off the land that is both doomed and liberated by their intentions. The beautiful footage by director of photography László Kovács is essential to the trip. Much of the film consists of simply shooting the riders as they travel spiralling highways and bigoted backroads. The two use money from a drug deal to finance their cross-country odyssey.Īlong the way the beauty and contradictions of America are witnessed, and discussed in no less than seven campfire chats. They are not seeking freedom, but symbolically testing the limits of freedom by travelling against its current. These two modern cowboys travel eastward from Los Angeles. Convention has it that American freedom hits its apex when you hit the Pacific. The journey towards ‘freedom’ has always been tied to a drift westward. He has little patience for flower children, pretentious intellectuals, coy women, law officers, drunks or rednecks.Ī major drug deal goes down, much grass is smoked and the journey eastward begins. He is nothing but comment, constantly saying exactly what he thinks. He lets America affect him, not the other way around. It’s less intense than subdued and appreciative, like he is taking in everything from the trip. Fonda’s lead has a cool, deliberate ‘quiet’. Peter Fonda plays serene Wyatt, while Hopper is a paranoid prophet of the hippies as ‘Billy the Kid’. What happens instead is that putting the two side by side creates such a desperate contrast that Pepsi will never look less cool. It is no surprise then that something as inert and ‘uncool’ as a soft drink tries to get cool by association. No matter what hindsight casts upon it, or how it is appropriated and reinterpreted, it is hard to imagine a cooler image then Peter Fonda in his Captain America Jacket and Dennis Hopper in fringe on the open road.
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Shame on the vandals, not the object of their vandalism.Įasy Rider is enjoyable as a moment frozen in time. Rather than diminishing the spirit and era of Easy Rider, I think the ad indicts our own, therein making the film more appealing and vital.
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If this is true, then remember that the movie didn’t get lame, the culture did. People may argue that if Dennis Hopper himself will now do any number of corporate ads, then you could just as easily appropriate his creations also. Turns out the 9 to 5’er is just having a daydream aboard a commuter train because he is high … on Pepsi!
There is a commercial running in America where a dull office drone is inserted via computer-generated animation into footage of Peter Fonda on his chopper from Easy Rider. AMC also asked Reedus to appear on his own show for the network called Ride With Norman Reedus which resembled that of Easy Rider starring Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and Dennis Hopper, where the Florida native took five seasons to explore motorcycles and biker culture while driving on the open road in the United States.Apparently we’ve now reached ‘post’ post-modern.
Reedus is used to playing similar characters on television in recent years, as the aforementioned Daryl Dixon has become quite the brand of characters that the actor has been associated with lately. Norman Reedus and the growing team of The Bikeriders will tell the story of a fictional Midwestern town whose motorcycle club transitions over the course of a decade from being a place where local outsiders can assemble to more of an evil and sometimes threatening group of bandits. The new movie will be adapted for the screen and directed by Jeff Nichols, a frequent collaborator of Michael Shannon’s on hit projects like Take Shelter, Midnight Special, and Mud, which will be the director’s first movie in over six years. Reedus joins an impressive cast that includes Elvis star Austin Butler, Killing Eve staple Jodie Comer, British actor and The Dark Knight Rises alum Tom Hardy, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice‘s Michael Shannon, A Walk Among the Tombstones performer Boyd Holbrook, and Damon Herriman of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood fame. According to a report by Deadline, Norman Reedus has signed on to join an ensemble group of actors to portray a currently unnamed character in the new film, The Bikeriders, which is based on the 1967 book of the same name by Danny Lyon.
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